About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 60. Chapters: Delaware colonial people, Families from Delaware, Fictional characters from Delaware, People of Delaware in the American Civil War, People of Delaware in the American Revolution, Thomas McKean, John Dickinson, Hendrick Jacobs Falkenberg, George Read, List of people from Delaware, David Weigel, Caesar Rodney, Richard Bassett, Joshua Clayton, John McKinly, Cheney Clow, Nicholas Van Dyke, William Temple, Jehu Davis, Whiplash, John Cook, William Cannon, Thomas Collins, Henry A. du Pont, William H. H. Ross, Blizzard, James A. Bayard, Jr., George P. Fisher, George R. Riddle, Willard Saulsbury, Sr., William H. Forwood, Stephen K. Hayes, George Sykes, Lorenzo Thomas, Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert, Corruptor, Joe Carnahan, Clayton family, Thomas Garrett, Thomas Alfred Smyth, Samuel Wharton, Griffin Seward, Henry Hayes Lockwood, Bayard family, David Pietersz. de Vries, John Wainwright, Charles H. Baldwin, List of people executed in Delaware, Rodney family of Delaware, George David Cummins, John P. Gillis, Valentine Hollingsworth, John B. Maberry, Read family of Delaware, Shoha Parekh, Randal Hilton. Excerpt: John Dickinson (November 8, 1732 - February 14, 1808) was an American lawyer and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Wilmington, Delaware. He was a militia officer during the American Revolution, a Continental Congressman from Pennsylvania and Delaware, a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, President of Delaware and President of Pennsylvania. Among the wealthiest men in the British American colonies, he is known as the "Penman of the Revolution" for his Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania; upon receiving news of his death, President Thomas Jefferson recognized him as being "among the first of the advocates for the rights of his country when assailed by Great Britain" whose "name will be...
